Wyatt Partners About Us

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As experts in the field of attorneys’ fees, settlements, and litigation management in general, we at Wyatt Partners approach each of our legal fee matters with a distinctive, nuanced, and highly analytical perspective. We believe that the determination of what constitutes a reasonable amount of fees can never be a simple number-crunching exercise or arbitrary conclusion as to what something “should” have cost. It involves a deeper understanding of each individual litigation, a full and objective evaluation of invoices, pleadings, and other vital documents, and, when possible, in depth correspondence with appropriate outside and corporate counsel. We take many factors into consideration, including the complexity of certain cases, the nature of the required workload, the stakes of the individual lawsuits, and a myriad of other issues that makes every single piece of litigation independently unique.

We at Wyatt Partners also believe that this determination is enhanced by the perspective our professionals bring. All of us have been litigators and/or have worked inside corporate legal departments during our respective careers. We know how litigation works, we know how expensive it can be, we have been creators of invoices, and we have been reviewers of invoices. As providers and consumers of legal services, we at Wyatt Partners believe that our perspective and our methods are the most comprehensive and successful ways to evaluate the reasonableness of legal fees and expenses for our clients.

Each of our Team has served (or currently serves) as an organizational General Counsel, with experience in both for-profit and non-profit corporate guidance. Through these roles, we have addressed head-on litigation management in diverse fields, including, but not limited to: class action and mass tort, contractual disputes, corporate governance, cyber-security, environmental, intellectual property, labor and employment, legal ethics, natural disaster, non-profit, quality assurance and quality control, real estate, and toxic tort.

Meet Our Team

	Steven A. Tasher Chief Executive Officer Steven A. Tasher is one of the nation’s leading experts on legal fee matters. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Wyatt Partners, a multi-faceted legal services company. As CEO, he serves as an expert, assessing and evaluating the reasonableness of attorneys’ fees/expenses and settlements in complex litigation in federal and state courts throughout the United States and as an advisor to major corporations and law firms on the development and implementation of billing guidelines, litigation budget and bill review programs. His entire legal career has focused around the handling and supervision of major litigation throughout the world. In addition to his duties at Wyatt Partners, Steven serves as General Counsel of Case Medical, Inc., a global pharmaceutical medical instruments company. Before launching Wyatt Partners, Steven served as Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Wyeth and as Senior Vice President of its pharmaceutical division. His responsibilities included the supervision of five global operating departments of the company as well as supervision of the company’s major litigation. Prior to Wyeth, he was a partner in two major international law firms, Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine and Willkie Farr & Gallagher, an in-house counsel for the DuPont Company and Deputy Attorney General for the State of New Jersey where he handled major litigation and appellate matters and served as Chief Counsel to four cabinet officers. Steven currently sits on the boards of several corporate, philanthropic and academic institutions and is an adjunct faculty member at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His educational background includes a B.A. degree with honors from Rutgers University and a J.D. degree with honors from the George Washington University Law School.
	Lindsay H. Tasher Managing Director Lindsay H. Tasher is a Managing Director at Wyatt Partners, where she focuses her time on attorney fee expert witness work, advising major corporations and law firms on the development of litigation budget programs and billing guidelines, and assessing and evaluating the reasonableness of attorneys’ fees and settlements in complex litigation in federal and state court throughout the United States. Prior to her work with Wyatt, Lindsay was in private practice in two law firms – one in New York and one in New Jersey. She handled all types of civil litigation, with an emphasis on aviation mass-tort law and wrongful death/personal injury claims against airlines and their insurers. She also gained experience in product liability and asbestos defense litigation, as well as various commercial claims under both New York and Jersey state and federal law, including claims for breach of contract, fraud, negligence, and breach of fiduciary duty. Lindsay received her undergraduate degree in English from Princeton University in 2000 and her law degree from The George Washington University Law School in 2005. She currently serves as Vice President of the board of Cancer Hope Network as well as co-chair of both the Marketing and Golf Committees (and, for several years, served as General Counsel). Cancer Hope Network is a not-for-profit organization that provides free and one-on-one support to cancer patients and their families. Lindsay also served several terms on the George Washington University Law School Alumni Association Executive Board of Directors. Lindsay is also a musician, and for the past several years has performed in a multitude of charity rock benefits – one for Cancer Hope Network, and three with a group of her colleagues from the insolvency community. This band, known as Bankrupt Talent, raises money via these benefits for non-profits around the country, including Stockings with Care, Good Grief, and the Make-A-Film Foundation.
	Samuel L. Tasher Managing Director Samuel L. Tasher is a Managing Director at Wyatt Partners. In this capacity, Samuel provides expert analysis and opinions on the reasonableness of attorneys’ fees and settlements in complex litigation around the world, and serves as an advisor to major corporations and law firms on the development and implementation of billing guidelines and other tools to manage their legal spend. Samuel also serves as the General Counsel of Cloud X Partners, LLC (a private equity firm holding interests in cloud-based technologies), for which he manages its legal affairs (including the supervision of its outside counsel for litigation, equity financing, corporate governance, and M&A transactions). Samuel also serves as coordinating counsel for the TPE Boulder 2020 Fund, L.P., (another private equity fund) and its investment portfolio. Samuel is also a frequent lecturer on legal ethics, attorneys’ fees, and settlements around the country. Samuel received his A.B. (cum laude), J.D., and LL.M. from Duke University. While at Duke, Samuel spent several years working for Duke University’s Athletics Department in various capacities, including the Compliance Office and Legal Department. Samuel spent a summer in the legal department of the New York Yankees. Samuel is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.

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